Ukraine is unhappy with the conditions proposed by Gazprom on gas transit after 2019, and will insist on its preservation in the amount of at least 40 billion cubic meters. About this, according to the "Ukrinform", said the head of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine Igor Nasalik. According to him, "Ukraine will not go to such volumes, because for Ukraine they will be economically unprofitable. That is, we will need to invest in order to pump such volumes of gas ".

Earlier, the chairman of the board of Naftogaz of Ukraine, Andrei Kobelev, said in an interview with Deutsche Welle that the loss of the country's economy in the event of the termination of the transit of Russian gas would be very painful and amount to "approximately $ 3.5 billion. Somewhere 2-3 percent of GDP ". It should be reminded that Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller told journalists that the issue of refusing gas transit through Ukraine was never raised. The transit can remain at the level of 10-15 billion cubic meters per year in the event that Ukraine proves the economic feasibility of the new contract.